Day: January 10, 2022

January 10, 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Waxing Gibbous phase. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. During a Waxing Gibbous the moon rises in the east in mid-afternoon and is high in the eastern sky at sunset. The moon is then visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has its roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.

Visit the January 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on January 10 has an illumination of 57%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On January 10 the Moon is 8.05 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 57%
Moon Age: 8.05 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 396,986.00 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,119,066.35 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Northwestern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Los Angeles, California, USA

January 10, 2022
12:00 am GMT 4:00 PM PST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:19 Capricorn 42
Moon:22 Aries 27
Mercury:08 Aquarius 35
Venus:18 Capricorn 08 Rx
Mars:19 Sagittarius 31
Jupiter:02 Pisces 22
Saturn:12 Aquarius 54
Uranus:10 Taurus 51 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 51
Pluto:26 Capricorn 14
True Lunar Node:00 Gemini 32
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 03 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):19 Gemini 28
Chiron:08 Aries 39
Ceres:28 Taurus 03 Rx
Pallas:18 Pisces 49
Juno:20 Capricorn 54
Vesta:29 Sagittarius 21
Eris:23 Aries 41 Rx
Fire:5
Earth:7
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7

Northern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, USA

January 10, 2022
11:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:20 Capricorn 41
Moon:04 Taurus 09
Mercury:09 Aquarius 14
Venus:17 Capricorn 33 Rx
Mars:20 Sagittarius 13
Jupiter:02 Pisces 34
Saturn:13 Aquarius 01
Uranus:10 Taurus 51 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 52
Pluto:26 Capricorn 16
True Lunar Node:00 Gemini 33
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 00 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):19 Gemini 34
Chiron:08 Aries 40
Ceres:28 Taurus 01 Rx
Pallas:19 Pisces 05
Juno:21 Capricorn 17
Vesta:29 Sagittarius 52
Eris:23 Aries 41 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:6
Mutable:7

Northeastern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

10 January 2022
04:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:20 Capricorn 23
Moon:00 Taurus 37
Mercury:09 Aquarius 03
Venus:17 Capricorn 43 Rx
Mars:20 Sagittarius 00
Jupiter:02 Pisces 30
Saturn:12 Aquarius 59
Uranus:10 Taurus 51 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 52
Pluto:26 Capricorn 15
True Lunar Node:00 Gemini 32
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 01 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):19 Gemini 32
Chiron:08 Aries 39
Ceres:28 Taurus 02 Rx
Pallas:19 Pisces 00
Juno:21 Capricorn 10
Vesta:29 Sagittarius 42
Eris:23 Aries 41 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:6
Mutable:7

Witchcraft Correspondences: What They Are and Why You Need Them for Your Spells

Born in deepest Cornwall, now living in wild Wales, Bev has been practising her personal brand of eclectic witchcraft for years and years.

Sarah is preparing a love spell for herself. The dating scene has been a bit of a desert recently, and she wants a little romance in her life. She’s dusted her altar, cleared her working area, and had a scented bath. Now, she carefully lays out a small collection of objects: a pink candle, a rose bud in a glass of water, two tarot cards (the Ace and Knight of Cups), a photo of a turtle dove, and a rose quartz crystal.

A few streets along, Tanya is also preparing to cast a spell. She needs money to get her car repaired. She has also prepared herself and the room where she does her energy work. Her collection of objects include a green candle, a favorite pebble, a sprig of oak leaves, a small china toad, two tarot cards (Ace and Six of Pentacles), and a chunk of malachite.

These items are commonly called ‘correspondences’.

What Are Correspondences in Witchcraft?

Correspondences are objects that are connected to, and representative of other things, intentions, desires and outcomes. They can be such things as candles, crystals, jewelry, household objects, ornaments, plants, herbs, and images of anything. As well as tangible objects, they can be deities, angels, scents, colors, symbols, numbers, and words. Even your own visualizations can be termed correspondences because they are an abstract mirroring of your desire. All spell ‘ingredients’ are correspondences. The elements of earth, air, fire, and water are correspondences. So are the cardinal directions. Each of these has its own distinct kind of energy.

Their purpose is to create a matrix to help focus the mind and magnify the energy which you release into the ether.

Common Correspondences

The following correspondences have mostly been taken from the comprehensive and very big, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Correspondences: A Comprehensive & Cross-Referenced Resource for Pagans & Wiccans by Sandra Kines. Its 450 pages contain a vast amount of correspondences for many situations and their potential magical workings/spells. The Kindle version has a really useful click-able index which makes the most of the cross-referencing. The lists below are just a tiny sample.

Beauty

  • Zodiac sign/s – Libra and Sagittarius
  • Switchword – Praise
  • Colors – Gold, green, peach, pink
  • Number – Three
  • Tarot cards – Empress, Nine of …

Click here to read the rest of this article about Witchcraft Correspondences: What They Are and Why You Need Them for Your Spells

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 January 10

Comet Leonard’s Tail Wag

Comet Leonard’s Tail Wag

Image Credit: NASA, NRL, STEREO-A; Processing: B. Gallagher

Explanation: Why does Comet Leonard’s tail wag? The featured time-lapse video shows the ion tail of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) as it changed over ten days early last month. The video was taken by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-Ahead (STEREO-A) spacecraft that co-orbits the Sun at roughly the same distance as the Earth. Each image in this 29-degree field was subtracted from following image to create frames that highlight differences. The video clearly shows Comet Leonard’s long ion tail extending, wagging, and otherwise being blown around by the solar wind — a stream of fast-moving ions that stream out from the Sun. Since the video was taken, Comet Leonard continued plunging toward the Sun, reached its closest approach to the Sun between the orbits of Mercury and Venus, survived this closest approach without breaking apart, and is now fading as heads out of our Solar System.

 

Tuesday over Zoom: APOD editor to present the Best APOD Space Images of 2021

10 January 2022 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a Waxing Gibbous phase. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon. During a Waxing Gibbous the moon rises in the east in mid-afternoon and is high in the eastern sky at sunset. The moon is then visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. The word Gibbous first appeared in the 14th century and has its roots in the Latin word “gibbosus” meaning humpbacked.

Visit the January 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Phase

The Waxing Gibbous on January 10 has an illumination of 57%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On January 10 the Moon is 8.05 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 57%
Moon Age: 8.05 days
Moon Angle: 0.50
Moon Distance: 396,986.00 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,119,066.35 km

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

 For Your Local Time and Date 

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

10 January 2022
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:20 Capricorn 33
Moon:02 Taurus 38
Mercury:09 Aquarius 09
Venus:17 Capricorn 37 Rx
Mars:20 Sagittarius 07
Jupiter:02 Pisces 32
Saturn:13 Aquarius 00
Uranus:10 Taurus 51 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 52
Pluto:26 Capricorn 15
True Lunar Node:00 Gemini 32
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 01 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):19 Gemini 33

Chiron:08 Aries 40

Ceres:28 Taurus 01 Rx
Pallas:19 Pisces 03
Juno:21 Capricorn 14
Vesta:29 Sagittarius 48
Eris:23 Aries 41 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:6
Mutable:7
Obliquity of the Nine Planets

Southern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa

10 January 2022
03:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:20 Capricorn 20
Moon:00 Taurus 07
Mercury:09 Aquarius 01
Venus:17 Capricorn 45 Rx
Mars:19 Sagittarius 58
Jupiter:02 Pisces 30
Saturn:12 Aquarius 58
Uranus:10 Taurus 51 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 52
Pluto:26 Capricorn 15
True Lunar Node:00 Gemini 32
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 01 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):19 Gemini 32
Chiron:08 Aries 39
Ceres:28 Taurus 02 Rx
Pallas:19 Pisces 00
Juno:21 Capricorn 09
Vesta:29 Sagittarius 41
Eris:23 Aries 41 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:6
Fixed:6
Mutable:7
Obliquity of the Nine Planets

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

10 January 2022
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:19 Capricorn 58
Moon:25 Aries 32
Mercury:08 Aquarius 46
Venus:17 Capricorn 58 Rx
Mars:19 Sagittarius 42
Jupiter:02 Pisces 25
Saturn:12 Aquarius 56
Uranus:10 Taurus 51 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 51
Pluto:26 Capricorn 14
True Lunar Node:00 Gemini 32
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 02 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):19 Gemini 29

Chiron:08 Aries 39
Ceres:28 Taurus 02 Rx
Pallas:18 Pisces 54
Juno:21 Capricorn 00
Vesta:29 Sagittarius 29
Eris:23 Aries 41 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:7
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7